Last year FAU was a Division I-AA team and opened the season at MTSU. The Owls were supposed to be an easy opponent for the Blue Raiders, but FAU won 20-19 on a desperation 62-yard pass to Roosevelt Bynes, who scored with no time on the clock.

The loss to a I-AA team shocked and embarrassed MTSU.

"When everyone was making fun of our kids, our program, in a game we should have won, I told you that [FAU] was a quality football team," McCollum said. "It's no shock to us they beat Hawaii at Hawaii and North Texas at North Texas."

But McCollum insists Saturday's 3 p.m. rematch at Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro is not about revenge.

"There is not a thing I can do about yesterday. It hasn't been talked about at all," he said.

While it may not have been verbalized, the game is still fresh in the players' minds.